Child Of: Surviving a Narcissistic Familial Cult

In this episode Joanna discusses why it has become so popular in our society to hate kids and how this can lead to child abuse. She demands that we begin to look at this mentality as the red-flag that it is. Hating anything, especially children who are weak and often times at our mercy, is not cool and should never be a main-stream emotion in any society.

In this episode Joanna shares in detail how her holiday season went, all the challenges she faced and how she navigated them. Tune in to hear the good the bad and the ugly and how to face all these things with grace and self compassion.

In this episodes Joanna shares how she is struggling with the grief that the holidays bring up.

As the second part of this mini series, Joanna shares the top 5 (its really 6 though) ways she has healed her relationship with God and her spirituality after being spiritually abused by a narcissistic parent. 24

In this first part of a 2 part series Joanna shares her experience growing up with a religious narcissist for a father and how this combination resulted in on-going spiritual abuse.

In this episode Joanna shares 5 tips she has picked up over the years to help navigate conversations with a toxic/narcissistic parent. It is no mistake that this episode arrives pre-holiday-season. If you are heading into an especially uncomfortable family dinner/event, this episode is for you.

In this, more intimate episode, Joanna shares in detail about reconnecting with her estranged brother over coffee.

When the existence of a problem becomes a part of your identity, what happens when healing is offered? In this episode Joanna shares her own experience with this issue of identity and how to move forward and find who you are beyond your suffering.

In this episode Joanna asks this question: Are you an empath or are you dealing with a symptom of PTSD? 

She shares what she's learned this year about this very thing. After years of thinking she was an empath she began to understand her perceptiveness as a trauma response rather than a natural gifting.